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> Being better than "average" is a laughably low bar for self-driving cars. Average drivers include people who drive while drunk and on drugs. It includes teena
by D-Coder 2y ago
> Being better than "average" is a laughably low bar for self-driving cars. Average drivers include people who drive while drunk and on drugs. It includes teenagers and those who otherwise have very little experience on the road. It includes people who are too old to be driving safely. It includes people who are habitually speed and are reckless... (etc)
But... that's the reality. If we replace human drivers with self-driving cars at random, or specifically the bad drivers above, then we've improved things.
We are not going to easily improve the average human driver.
- Barrin92 2y ago>If we replace human drivers with self-driving cars at random But that's the OPs point, we aren't. Waymo crashing less than human drivers is a tautological result because Waymo is only letting the cars drive on roads where they're confident they can drive as well as humans to begin with. If you actually ran the (very unethical) experiment of replacing a million people at random on random streets tomorrow with waymo cars you're going to cause some carnage, they only operate in parts of four American cities.
- danielbln 2y agoI think if you swap a million humans into other humans at random you're going to get some road carnage as well, to be fair. If someone suddenly puts me on some icy road in Minnesota I'm gonna have a bad time.